no thanks, wine woot cant ship to me so no point :/
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Beer's volume to weight to cost to shelf life ratio makes it impractical.
It's relatively cheap and quite heavy. it's not practical as it's own site that has beer for sale every day.
Short answer: Never. Probably.
I know I've seen @Snapster weigh in on this more than once, but here's the first recent result I came across:
On Oct 24, 2011, @Snapster said: "as soon as 'dehydrated beer' is available, we'll be right on that. otherwise, the low price:weight ratio of beer ruins it for shipping. (e.g. case of beer $10 +shipping $35)"
(I missed the edit window on my previous post by about a minute)
I think the best we can hope for is some more beer items on wine.woot. I would like to see some more home brewing stuff featured once and a while.
@anotherhiggins: You know ... I'm not endorsing this massively over-asked question, but there might be other ways to achieve this. Perhaps manufacturer or distributor-backed vouchers that're locally redeemable, for example? That would solve both the shipping and the per-state-legality problems, to some degree at least. I tend to think @snapster may be starting to have enough pull that something along those lines could be worked out, though it probably wouldn't be something common enough to be a site on its own. Hmm ... on the other hand ... ( @psaux goes and researches it as a startup plan... :P )
Unfortunately, Beer.Woot cannot exist currently because most beer is cheap and heavy. With the price of most 6-packs being under $13 but weighing around 10 lbs., it would cost as much or more than the cost of the beer to ship. Because of this, only rare/limited/expensive beer would work on such a business model. We have sold beer glassware and the like on Wine.Woot before.
See these threads for more info:
http://www.woot.com/Forums/ViewPost.aspx?PostID=2390243
http://wine.woot.com/forums/ViewPost.aspx?PostID=2774160
@drsilentg: Do you live in the United States? If so, you should be aware that each wine can ship to varying states each day because of how the shipping laws work. Each day you spin the wheel...but one day you will be able to get something you want
@skinundone: Not completely. Some states block outside direct shipments period. Mine is one of them and @drsilentg's may be as well.
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